{"id":367398,"date":"2018-06-30T07:09:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T06:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/another-mass-shooting-fueled-by-toxic-masculinity\/"},"modified":"2018-06-30T07:09:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T06:09:47","slug":"another-mass-shooting-fueled-by-toxic-masculinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/another-mass-shooting-fueled-by-toxic-masculinity\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Mass Shooting Fueled by Toxic Masculinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>As the nation mourned yet another senseless mass shooting \u2014 this time at a local newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland on Thursday in which five people were murdered \u2014 details of the alleged gunman expose yet another perpetrator with a history of misogynistic and threatening behavior towards women.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday it was reported that the man arrested by police at the scene of the massacre inside The Capital Gazette\u2019s offices, Jarrod Warren Ramos \u2014 who had a \u201cbitter history\u201d with the newspaper going back years \u2014 had been<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/8c0bdb55780646ac85f2a53a2c025d01\/Suspect-in-Maryland-newspaper-to-appear-on-5-murder-charges\">charged by local prosecutors<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>with five counts of first degree murder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/6db8cd832ed04cba850fdfdd3821fc40\/Shooting-suspect-had-bitter-history-with-Maryland-newspaper\">According<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>to the Associated Press:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ramos filed a failed lawsuit against the paper in 2012, alleging the newspaper, a columnist and an editor defamed him in an article about his conviction in a criminal harassment case in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, five days after Ramos pleaded guilty to criminal harassment, the newspaper published a story describing allegations by a woman who claimed Ramos harassed her online for months.<\/p>\n<p>The article said Ramos had contacted the woman on Facebook and thanked her \u201cfor being the only person ever to say, \u2018Hello,\u2019 or be nice to him in school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The woman told the newspaper that Ramos appeared to be having some problems, so she wrote back and tried to help, suggesting a counseling center. She said that set off months of emails in which Ramos sometimes asked for help, but other times called her vulgar names and told her to kill herself. She told The Capital that she told him to stop, but the emails continued. She said she called police and the emails stopped for months, but then started up again \u201cnastier than ever,\u201d the article said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After a court rejected his lawsuit claiming defamation by the paper, Ramos\u2019 ire reportedly intensified and he increasingly targeted the newspaper and its staff with threats. As Christian Christensen, professor of journalism at Stockholm University in Sweden, pointed out Ramos\u2019 profile fits a familiar&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/as-nation-mourns-newsroom-massacre-toxic-masculinity-and-guns-once-more-lamented\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the nation mourned yet another senseless mass shooting \u2014 this time at a local newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland on Thursday in which five people were murdered \u2014 details of the alleged gunman expose yet another perpetrator with a history of misogynistic and threatening behavior towards women. On Friday it was reported that the man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-367398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}